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Analyst Angle: Buying into the ‘real’ mobile Internet

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, Jupiter Research's...

VZW scores partners for new music offering: MTV, RealNetworks to support service

Verizon Wireless is hoping it can make better music as part of a trio than it did singing solo.The carrier last week announced a partnership with MTV Networks and RealNetworks Inc. to challenge Apple Inc.'s dominant iTunes service. MTV will shutter its Urge music...

Satisfaction guaranteed?: CRM seeks to break barriers

If businesses had Ten Commandments, No. 1 would probably be "Know Thy Customer."Easier said than done.Customer information plays a crucial role in customer relationship management, from determining the type of offers and incentives that are made to customers to impacting growth and retention. The...

Verizon Wireless joins forces with MTV, Real for iTunes competitor

Verizon Wireless is teaming with MTV Networks and RealNetworks Inc. to take on Apple Inc.'s iTunes service.MTV is shuttering its Urge music download service and will integrate components of the offering with RealNetworks' Rhapsody, an online music subscription service. Verizon Wireless will serve as...

U.S. sales of Nokia’s N95: Erroneous report stirs interest

A mistake in a media report earlier this month suggesting that Nokia Corp. had sold as many as 450,000 units of its high-end N95 handset in the United States during the second quarter immediately set chins to wagging.The N95 packs advanced Web browsing, multimedia...

iPhone ecosystem challenges developers

THE IPHONE HAS given birth to the iEcosystem. Whether that's a good thing, though, is debatable.Apple Inc.'s decision to bar third-party developers from building applications for its high-profile device has drawn scorn in the software world. But there is no shortage of Internet-based applications...

Study: iPhone texting poses challenges

A small study by usability consultancy User Centric Inc. found that first-time users of the Apple Inc. iPhone took twice as long to compose text messages on the device as they did with their own phone, and that many users preferred the feel of...

Nokia’s new chip strategy realigns space: STMicroelectronics gets 3G win, EDGE gives Broadcom boost

WHEN A BEHEMOTH SHAKES ITS TAIL, some rise, some fall. The behemoth benefits.That appears to be the upshot of Nokia Corp.'s announcement last week that it had selected four main chipset suppliers for future business. The move boosted some fortunes and cast off others,...

DRM jumble makes move toward clarity: Nokia takes step with Microsoft deal

The nightmarish world of mobile digital rights management may have taken a small step toward sanity.Microsoft Corp. scored a big win last week, agreeing to license its PlayReady anti-software piracy to Nokia Corp. The world's largest handset manufacturer plans to embed the technology on...

Device management services primed for growth: Market drivers: handset software complexity, new network services

The inexorable pressure to launch a handset-as scheduled-for maximum impact-has created a growing market for mobile device management (MDM) products, including firmware over the air, or FOTA.As network operators increasingly rush to introduce new revenue-generating services and applications, market growth from a modest field...

Google’s widening wireless world

In case you hadn't heard, Google is going mobile. The Wall Street Journal last week trumpeted the Internet giant's efforts to build handsets in a page-one story that quickly echoed throughout the blogosphere and the trade press. London's Telegraph stoked the rumor mill a...

Nokia to embed Microsoft PlayReady on devices

Nokia Corp. said it will embed anti-piracy software from Microsoft Corp. on its Series 60 and Series 40 handsets. The world's largest mobile-phone manufacturer said it will include Microsoft's DRM solution, dubbed PlayReady, on both Symbian-enabled devices and feature phones beginning next year. The...

Competitors nibble into Motorola’s lead during Q2: Razr peaks, Nokia surges, Sanyo’s Katana strong seller

There's good news for a beleaguered American handset giant named Motorola Inc.The company's Razr handset-beefed up on functionality and spun off in customized form in myriad colors for all four of the top-tier network operators-represented two of the top five bestselling handsets last quarter...

Touchscreens: Fall’s fashion trend: Post-Labor Day launches likely for U.S.

First, Balda AG and its partner, TPK Holdings, won Apple Inc.'s business for the touchscreen module for the latter's iPhone.Now Balda's shareholders are agitating for the company to spin off its touchscreen business to bring more visibility to that business' value, according to German...

The Week in Review

Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News will run through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to look for in the coming weeks. Check below for news about carriers, handset...

AC/DC snubs iTunes with Verizon Wireless download deal

Verizon Wireless won an exclusive deal to distribute AC/DC's entire catalog of 18 albums through its Vcast music service.One of the last holdouts in the age of digital music, AC/DC opted to join with the nation's second-largest mobile carrier rather than forge a pact...

Apple releases first iPhone software update

Buried deep in the support area of its Web site, iPhone maker Apple Inc. provided instructions on how to update the handset via a cabled connection to a PC. The company titled the item "Updating and restoring iPhone software." The update is available only...

Lawsuit hits Apple on iPhone battery replacement costs

Whether Jose Trujillo of Melrose Park, Ill., will find support among fellow iPhone owners-or a court of law in Cook County, Ill.-for his just-launched lawsuit against Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. over the need to have the unit's rechargeable battery replaced eventually remains to...

Virgin Mobile USA prepares to go public: MVNO hopes to raise $500M

WITH VIRGIN MOBILE USA L.L.C. SEEKING A $500 MILLION INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING, the company is looking to complete the first IPO of a mobile virtual network operator in the United States. The IPO market has been stronger this year than in recent years, which...

Handset vendors and component suppliers:: ‘Symbiotic relationship’ with exposure for both parties

When teardown firms managed to analyze the components of the iPhone, they found that Apple Inc. had taken the wireless handset industry's diversification strategy one step further.Where most handset vendors rely on one main source for certain key components-while cueing up a second source...

Correction

In the "Apple set to invade Europe" story on page 14 of this week's issue, it should read that Apple will unveil a European partner for the iPhone as well as hit its goal of 1 million devices during the company's fourth fiscal quarter,...

The Week in Review

Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News will run through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to look for in the coming weeks. Check below for news about carriers, handset...

Worst of the Week: Bad math

Hello!And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong...

UPDATED: iPhone to launch in Europe by December: Apple testing wireless corporate e-mail

The iPhone will be launched in "a few major countries" in Europe before the end of December, Apple Inc. executives said this afternoon during a conference call to discuss the company's earnings. By that time Apple expects to sell one million units between sales...